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Twitter invented mentions, even tho IRC had them way before. Kik invented Chat bots, even tho IRC had them way before. Your next startup invented xyz, even th
by igorgue 10y ago
Twitter invented mentions, even tho IRC had them way before.
Kik invented Chat bots, even tho IRC had them way before.
Your next startup invented xyz, even tho IRC had them way before.
- j45 10y agoI always saw twitter as an inverted IRC client - where you address a @Person instead of a #Channel.
- rakoo 10y agoIn some sense, twitter is IRC: you address @persons that meet on the same place you are, talking about some #topic. At one point I had the idea to actually write an IRC server where you would join a #channel that was actually a #topic, and the server would send you @people's tweets as messages. The usual guidelines for IM (putting @person's name before the message) would even be enough to reply to someone's tweet.
- j45 10y agoCouldn't agree more. Twitter is the IRC paradigm with a different presentation of messages by user in all their channels/#hashtags, vs in each channel.
- chocolatebunny 10y agoWell everything this labeled "social media" is just a clone of either newsgroups or irc or both.
- dalke 10y agoWhoo-hoo! I get to be "that" person. Take a look at the education computer system PLATO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)#Innovation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)#Innova... : > Pad (general-purpose computer message board), 1973, the first such, and a few months later, system-defined Notesfiles, precursors to Unix Newsgroups, Digital DECnotes and Lotus Notes. > Talkomatic (text-based) (6-room, 5-persons-per-room real-time chat room), 1973, precursor to Instant Messaging Conferences. Plus, emoticons in the 1970s! http://www.platohistory.org/blog/2012/09/plato-emoticons-revisited.html http://www.platohistory.org/blog/2012/09/plato-emoticons-rev...